No matter how hard I try....... in In the Kingdom of Suzu

So Jeff and I have been playing scrabble constantly. The games are usually pretty well matched, but he wins a bit more than me and no matter how hard I try, he always comes out ahead. For example, tonight i had said that I was going to be ruthless. Because he had won the last game, he gets to go first and right off the bat, he is able to use all his letters and I am 75 points behind! However, like the tortoise and the hare, I slowly crept up and ended up winning by 16 points---Woo-Hoo!